Hubbard Ice Systems adds Clenaware Glass and Warewasher Brand to its Portfolio

Leading commercial catering equipment distributor Hubbard Ice Systems is delighted to announce that it is adding another high profile brand to its portfolio of premium products. With immediate effect Hubbard Ice Systems will become sole distributors of Clenaware Commercial Glass and Warewashing machines, Thermal Disinfection Systems and Glass Air Drying Systems.

The long standing UK based Clenaware brand is well known for both its back of bar equipment for the Hospitality and Catering Sectors and its Thermal Disinfection System for the Hospital and Healthcare Sector. The addition of the Clenaware brand to Hubbard Ice Systems range of market leading Scotsman ice machines places Hubbard Ice Systems firmly as the UK’s leading supplier of high quality specialist catering equipment.

Sahara - the seal with wanderlust - snuggles up for another summer on ice in Cornwall

Sahara the world's best known - and the UK's only - captive arctic hooded seal is hitting the headlines again. The 2-year-old, timid male who was originally rescued in 2006 after being washed up near Morocco, thousands of miles from his Arctic home is set to become the National Seal Sanctuaries most popular guest.

After he featured on News programmes all over the world in 2008 highlighting his plight, visitors from around the globe have made trips to the National Seal Sanctuary at Gweek in Cornwall especially to see him. So much so that the Sanctuary has appealed to Hubbard Ice Systems to extend indefinitely the loan of the UK's only Scotsman MFN56 Bulk Nugget Ice machine which was provided to see Sahara through his recuperation until he was fit to be released again.

The UK's leading ice machines - scoop 2009 Food Processing Hygiene Award

At the 25th annual Food Processing Awards, held on 9 February 2009 at the Hinckley Island Hotel, Leicestershire, Hubbard Ice Systems, exclusive UK distributors of the Scotsman range of ice making equipment were presented with the Food Processing Award for Innovations in products and services to achieve hygienic food processing.

Hubbard Ice Systems were one of four finalists selected by a panel of judges and voted for by readers of Food Processing magazine. Hubbard Ice beat off close competition from Be-Plas Marketing, Teknomek and Vikan .

Hubbard Ice at Brunel for Future Olympians

The world-class UK Athletics (UKA) Centre at Brunel University has purchased a Scotsman MV300 ice maker from Hubbard Ice Systems to provide their star athletes with post-training ice baths, which aid quick recovery by increasing blood flow to the muscles.

Brunel University Athletics Centre is one of four UKA High Performance Centres (HiPACs). It has been included in the official London 2012 Pre-Games Preparation Camp Guide and a number of former Brunel athletes recently competed in the Beijing Olympics. It is therefore imperative that the athletes and possible stars of the future who train at Brunel get the best treatment and are provided with high quality equipment.

Ice for the Arctic Seal with Wanderlust

Hubbard Ice Systems has loaned a Scotsman ice machine to the National Seal Sanctuary in Cornwall, to help resident Arctic Hooded Seal, Sahara, feel more at home over the warm summer months.

Sahara the Arctic Hooded Seal has been given a permanent home by the National Seal Sanctuary after swimming more than 1000 miles to Mediterranean waters and being rescued not once but twice.

The 2-year-old, timid male was originally found in 2006 washed up near Morocco, thousands of miles from his Arctic home. He was malnourished and had a lung infection but was quickly transferred to Loro Parque Zoo in Tenerife to be rehabilitated. Once he was well enough Sahara was flown to the National Seal Sanctuary in Cornwall but he was still bald, 40kilos overweight and had an under-active thyroid. The Seal Sanctuary nurtured Sahara back to full strength, fitted him with a satellite tag and released him back into the wild off the Orkney Coast but within 8 weeks he washed up again, this time off the coast of Spain.